A kerbcrawler attracted to Teesside's seedy vice trade from affluent North Yorkshire has paid the price for his actions.

Ali Ashad, 28, stopped a prostitute who was plying her trade in the Borough Road/Albert Road area and agreed to pay her £20 for sex, Teesside magistrates were told.

They drove to North Ormesby, close to the Navigation pub, but it ended in humiliation for the hapless punter when he was arrested by police, the court heard.

Yesterday Ashad, of Long Street, Thirsk, appeared in court and admitted soliciting a woman for the purpose of prostitution. He was fined £50 with £25 costs after pleading guilty to the offence last October.